"Microsoft" is not a company, it is an ecosystem. It is a network of connected businesses that share the same goals and thus help one another. The role of Citrix is clear to see based on the XenSource story. The short story is that Citrix took Xen away from GNU/Linux, which is gradually gravitating towards KVM, probably as a direct result. Unsurprisingly, one of the only remaining supporters of Xen in the enterprise-oriented space is Novell, which is part of Microsoft's linked interests.
Dell, HP, IBM are you watching? I believe you would gain some important ground in your emerging competition with Cisco by also becoming buddies with Vyatta.
A home-cooked Microsoft license has carved out a small but growing following among the open-source community in less than two years.
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That's according to license and code watcher Black Duck Software, who attributed the rise in MS-PL to Microsoft's efforts to increase the appeal of its CodePlex project-hosting site. MS-PL is one of 1,577 software licenses from 200,000 projects analyzed by Black Duck.
“It is very dangerous to allow Black Duck to become (or be perceived as) a sort of spokesman for "open source".”It is also important to remember that Black Duck is a proprietary software company (and marketing puppet at times, for press exposure that leads to shameless self-promotion). Black Duck talks a lot about "open source " while selling proprietary software and nothing which is Free (libre) software at all, not to mention Black Duck's ripoff of Palamida's good *GPLv3 database (but that's old news).
It is disappointing to see Matt Asay parroting a message of this company which ushers Microsoft into embrace & extend of "open source". There is more in SD Times, following another Black Duck press release about open source in healthcare last week.
It is very dangerous to allow Black Duck to become (or be perceived as) a sort of spokesman for "open source". But some people allow this to happen, not just Microsoft proponents with prominent positions in the press. ⬆
Comments
Roy Schestowitz
2009-06-19 21:22:29
Microsoft is at the same time suing the open source community using software patents.
Jim Allchin from Mirosoft said: "Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer [...] I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. I'm an American; I believe in the American way, I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policymakers to understand the threat."
NotZed
2009-06-19 14:56:15
That's why the term was 'invented' in the first place, and nothing has changed since then; whether it be redhat, novell, a lecherous book publisher, or even microsoft or some 'black duck' doing the so-called 'open sourcing'. They're all only doing it for their own benefit.
Eran Strod
2009-06-19 20:30:21
Sabayon User
2009-06-19 21:41:49
This is a person who sees no ethical problems with encouraging trolling of the Ubuntu community to further his agenda, even to the point of trying to get people fired from their jobs over a technology he doesn't approve of.
Don't worry, you're in good company. As the facts behind this little operation begin to surface, people that have been gratuitously smeared and attacked over the years will be vindicated.